A call for peace

Lately there has been a lot of shootings and mass deaths. The Orlando shooting at the club was horrific. I'm not usually a political guy at all but on the gun issue I must say that we have to put a ban on semi-automatic assault weapons. Nobody should have weapons that can kill fifty people in minutes and injure another fifty. Those among the injured might even die too. This story is pretty much all that everybody is talking about. Even the announcers at E3 talked about it a bit as awkward as that sounds. I think the only logical way to help prevent these senseless acts of rage is to ban assault weapons. If the guy only had a pistol there's no way he would've been able to kill that many people that fast.

So I think they should ban assault weapons. In addition, they should make it harder to gain access to guns-any guns. There should be a more throughout medical evaluation and mental history for all gun owners. Lastly, there should be rigorous gun training classes that are mandatory for all gun owners. Now, I'm no gun expert and I've never even shot a gun before so I'm not sure if they already have these things in motion. But if they do, it seems like they aren't doing a good job of it at all.

I classify myself as a progressive democrat with some socialist leanings so you can sort of expect where I lean on the gun issue and how I feel about the NRA gun lobbyists. They're horrible. They have all this money and power over our government and every time something fucked up like this happens we all talk about banning assault weapons and nothing ever happens. That's because of the NRA gun lobbyists and Republicans but also the Democrats that are protecting the NRA and gun lobbyists too. They're all to blame because they're not doing anything of substantial change. They bring awareness to the issue and we mourn the victims as a national ritual for a short while but ultimately nothing substantial is ever done. This makes me very sad as an American because it shows that our government is run, bought, and sold by these gun tooting NRA lobbyists and they're not showing proper respect for our dead by making it harder for these things to happen again in the future.

I obviously have my own ideas about guns. For me, in a perfect America, there would be no need for guns, either by civilians nor the police. That way nobody could get killed by bullets and stupidity. Basically I want America to be like Japan or Canada-where most semi-automatic weapons are banned. Obviously America isn't that kind of country because mass shootings happen here on the daily and people are fighting for their right to bear arms because of the Second Amendment. Although I don't think we should change the constitution, I do think there are times when the laws need to adjusted to fit the situation as things change over time. This is why I think they need to ban assault weapons. It's like fucking Call of Duty out here. Obviously that's an overstatement but today we live in a world where you can get killed anywhere doing anything. Which leads me to my next point.

The Orlando story will capture the media's attention for weeks, as it should. But on June 12 Christina Grimmie was gunned down when she was signing autographs after a concert. She was a big gamer that I used to see at Fire and Dice but she was also a talented singer that was a finalist on The Voice. What happened to her was tragic. Although I never talked to her or even played her in bracket there's an empty feeling knowing that she's gone. If you're a famous person things like this can happen to you. It's that kind of world we live in. It's a scary place. She will be missed and we will remember her as a whole in the SoCal Smash 4 community.

To wrap things up the greatest thing we can do is come together as a nation, continents, and even world and give peace a chance. It's easier said than done but blaming guns isn't going to fix this issue. The government isn't going to fix this issue either-otherwise they would've done it a long time ago. People and only people are the bringers of peace. Peace is salvation. Give peace a chance.